Coco Brown, Porn Star in Space: Top 10 Facts You Need to Know

Porn star Coco Brown will make history as the first adult star to make it to the final frontier when she takes her place on a Dutch civilian voyage into space.

Here’s what you need to know…

1. The Space Trip is Sponsored by Axe

Coco will join a civilian expedition scheduled to launch in 2014. Astronauts began their training in January. The trip is being sponsored by the company Axe deodorant in what is being dubbed “Axe-Apollo.”

The company running the mission is known as SpaceXC, and according to its website:

The world keeps getting smaller. Expanding humanity is stretching the Earth’s resources to its limit. Science is now ready for the next step: into space. Opening up new worlds for humanity, specifically with regards to science, education, economic growth, sustainability and leisure.

The cost of entering training for the project is a cool $100,000.

5. She’ll be Travelling on an SXC Rocket

Jeff Creason, the innovator behind civilian space travel.

The rocket that Coco will be riding on is specifically designed to be a civilian spaceship. It’s the brainchild of Jeff Creason, who began the project in September 1999 through his company XCOR Aerospace, which was originally based in Mojave, California, but has since moved to Midland, Texas.

This is the ship that Coco will travel on.

6. She’s Based in Germany

Apparently not satisfied with making smut in the good ole US-of-A, in 1999 Brown — who hails from South Florida — upped sticks to Germany, where she has been based ever since. She has boasted on Twitter about her fluency in the language. Her migration resulted in a name change from her original porn-moniker, “Honey Love.” Well, I’ll let Coco tell you in her own words, from her Facebook page:

In 1999 I moved to Germany. In 2001 I signed an exclusive deal with DBM. I did about 19 movies for them. My first was galled GERMAN VISIT and my name was still HONEY LOVE. I decided new country, new name and ever since then I have been CoCo Brown.

7. She’s a Rapper … Ms. No Tonsels

Coco is not just a star in the adult movie world, she’s also in the process of becoming a rapper with several videos already uploaded to YouTube. Her rap name is for some reason less-tasteful than her porn name: “Ms. No Tonsels.” And her current freestyle video is titled “Pre-Cum.”

Indeed.

Coco has also credited herself with inventing a new musical genre: “Porn Rap.” Just what the world needed. Her official bio reads:

As her success continued to grow, so did her interests in other aspects of entertainment. With a lifelong love of music, CoCo began to pick up traction with her music career when German music producer McBee saw some of her films and asked her to be in a music video. McBee realized that CoCo could rap and from there, she began to work with popular musicians and producers like OG MellyMell, Donte Carter, Gooch and Wu Tang Clan.

8. She Was Married to a German Millionaire

Andreas Gauger, described as one of Germany most popular millionaires, was married to Coco for 10 years. The two met while they were both in Las Vegas. But it wasn’t smooth sailing, as Gauger allegedly wasn’t able to keep in his pants and cheated on the lovely Coco on numerous occasions. Unable to find an English report on the couple’s divorce, which occurred in 2010, I had to settle for this Google-translated version of an article from Cancan.ro, in which Coco says:

We met in Las Vegas. Honest I loved him, but he cheated on me from the first moment who came his way. I forgave countless hours, but now filled glass. Divorce, but want to give me 30-40 million euros…

The report goes on to state that while Coco was married to Gauger, she lived quite the lifestyle, owning several cars, including a BMW X5, and recieved $25,000 a month in allowance. The final terms of their divorce were not disclosed publicly, but if this space journey costs $100,000 you have to suspect that Mr. Gauger is footing the bill.

9. She’ll be the Fourth African-American Woman in Space

How fitting that on what would have been Rosa Parks’ 100th birthday we can celebrate another African-American Woman breaking down boundaries. Coco will be just the fourth African-American woman to make the journey into the unknown.

10. Her Career Began as a Stripper

Like so many of America’s space heroes, Coco’s career began as a stripper. She worked in what is described as the “World Famous” Deja-Vu gentleman’s club in Las Vegas. There she met porn producer Nicky Starks, and the rest is history (via her Facebook page):

How I got into the porn business was quite simple. I had just started stripping in a club called De Ja Vu in Las Vegas, NV. A porn producer named Nicky Starks came into the VU, bought 1 dance from me, then said to me, “I only wanted to see you naked up close”. He then asked me if i wanted to do movies. I took him up on his offer about six months later.

Paul Farrellis an independent journalist and senior contributor to Heavy who covers breaking news and current events. He's from Ireland and lives in Brooklyn. April 19, 2015 3:36 am